Document processing system and control method thereof, program, and storage medium
First Claim
1. A document processing system comprising:
- a storage unit constructed to store plural items of document data, plural items of metadata pertaining to a content of each item of document data, and relation information representing relations between the plural items of document data;
an input unit constructed to input image data;
a specifying unit constructed to specify document data related to the image data input by the input unit among the plural items of document data stored in the storage unit; and
a control unit constructed to control the storage unit to store relation information representing a relation between the image data input by the input unit and the related document data specified by the specifying unit, and to store metadata of the related document data specified by the specifying unit as metadata of the image data input by the input unit, wherein the storage unit is controlled to store the metadata of the related document data if a similarity of the image data input by the input unit and the related document data specified by the specifying unit is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold,wherein the metadata of the related document data specified by the specifying unit is stored with a certainty factor based on the similarity, andwherein the certainty factor is calculated according to a predetermined algorithm based on a relation type and type-specific degree of relation.
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Abstract
This invention is directed to a document processing system and control method thereof. The system stores a plurality of items of document data each containing metadata pertaining to the contents of each item of document data, and relation information representing the relations between the plurality of items of document data. When scanned image data or facsimile-received image data is input, document data related to the input image data is specified among the plurality of items of stored document data, based on the metadata contained in each item of document data. Relation information representing the relation between the input image data and the specified related document data is stored. Even document data obtained from a paper document is able to be stored as document data subjected to search processing.
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8 Claims
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1. A document processing system comprising:
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a storage unit constructed to store plural items of document data, plural items of metadata pertaining to a content of each item of document data, and relation information representing relations between the plural items of document data; an input unit constructed to input image data; a specifying unit constructed to specify document data related to the image data input by the input unit among the plural items of document data stored in the storage unit; and a control unit constructed to control the storage unit to store relation information representing a relation between the image data input by the input unit and the related document data specified by the specifying unit, and to store metadata of the related document data specified by the specifying unit as metadata of the image data input by the input unit, wherein the storage unit is controlled to store the metadata of the related document data if a similarity of the image data input by the input unit and the related document data specified by the specifying unit is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold, wherein the metadata of the related document data specified by the specifying unit is stored with a certainty factor based on the similarity, and wherein the certainty factor is calculated according to a predetermined algorithm based on a relation type and type-specific degree of relation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of controlling a document processing system having a storage unit constructed to store plural items of document data, plural items of metadata pertaining to a content of each item of document data, and relation information representing relations between the plural items of document data, the method comprising:
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inputting image data; specifying document data related to the input image data among the plural items of document data stored in the storage unit; and controlling the storage unit to store relation information representing a relation between the input image data and the specified related document data, and to store metadata of the specified related document data as metadata of the input image data, wherein the storage unit is controlled to store the metadata of the related document data if a similarity of the input image data and the specified related document data is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold, wherein the metadata of the related document data specified by the specifying is stored with a certainty factor based on the similarity, and wherein the certainty factor is calculated according to a predetermined algorithm based on a relation type and type-specific degree of relation. - View Dependent Claims (8)
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